Original Poster - Let’s Be Offensive: A Revue With Political Punch.
London: Unity Theatre, (1942). Original lithographed poster, 54cm x 41cm (21" x 16"). Professionally matted and framed (not laid down) beneath UV-protective glass. Fine, unfaded example; Grade A.
London’s Unity Theatre was organized in 1936; decidedly left-wing in outlook, it had ties to the Communist Party of Great Britain and to Victor Gollancz’s Left Book Club Theatre Guild. The Theatre’s annual satirical revues, which pioneered the use of such agitprop techniques as dramatic documentary (akin to the “Living Newspapers” of the Federal Theatre in the U.S.), improvisation, and audience participation, marked an important phase in the evolution of dramatic performance art in Great Britain. A really lovely early work by S. John Woods, noted for his film and travel posters (including several for London Transport) in the 1950s.
